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+# TerraMind Innovators Award 🌍✨  
+
+A **bi-monthly challenge** spotlighting the boldest, most imaginative ways to push TerraMind beyond “just another fine-tune”. 
+Whether you’re prototyping a new multi-modal workflow, exploring Thinking-in-Modalities, or inventing a never-seen geospatial application, we want you to share it with everyone.
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 What’s in it for you?
+* **€1 000 cash** for each round winner (June, August, October, December).  
+* **Grand Final Prize** — Community prestige and more, decided in January from the four round winners.  
+* Potential publication in a joint wrap-up paper with all winners and broad visibility across IBM, ESA, and the EO community.
+
+---
+
+## 🗓️ 2025 Timeline  
+
+| Round | Submission deadline (Anywhere-on-Earth) | Pitch & Winner Announcement |
+|-------|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------|
+| 1 | **30 Jun 2025** | Early July |
+| 2 | **31 Aug 2025** | Early September |
+| 3 | **31 Oct 2025** | Early November |
+| 4 | **31 Dec 2025** | Early January 2026 |
+| **Grand Final** | — | Mid-January 2026 |
+
+You can **submit or update** an entry at any time; it simply rolls into the next open round until it wins or the challenge ends.
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 What we’re looking for
+
+1. **Originality & Impact** – the primary judging criteria. Show us something genuinely new or game-changing for the geospatial community.  
+2. **Technical Quality** – sound methodology, thoughtful experiments, clear visuals.  
+3. **Extension of TerraMind** – creative use of multi-modal inputs, generative outputs, TiM chains, etc.  
+4. **Open Science & Reproducibility** – **mandatory**. Share code, models, and data splits (or a clear plan for restricted data).
+
+---
+
+## 📬 How to submit
+1. Start a **new discussion** in the [Community](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ibm-esa-geospatial/community/discussions) tab and describe your solution.
+2. Keep it under **1 000 words** – include images, tables, and a clear **contact email**.
+3. Link your repository, longer blog, or paper.
+4. That’s it – we’ll reach out if you’re selected for the pitch.
+
+We shared an example [here](todo).
+
+---
+
+## 🏆 Selection process
+* After each deadline, the jury short-lists **three** entries for a short online pitch (10 min presentation + 10 min discussion).  
+* One winner is declared; non-winners remain eligible for later rounds.
+* The four round winners face off in the **Grand Final** for the overall prize.
+
+---
+
+## 📝 Rules
+
+* **Use TerraMind:** your solution **must** leverage the TerraMind model.
+* **One win per team / individual:** you can only win **one** round, but feel free to keep sharing new ideas with the community.
+* **Grand-final refinement:** each round winner may refine their project before the final prize decision.
+
+
+---
+
+## 👩‍⚖️ Jury
+Experts from IBM, ESA, and independent researchers with backgrounds in geospatial AI.
+
+---
+
+
+### Need a spark?
+
+Check out the ideas of the [Community](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ibm-esa-geospatial/community/discussions) and leave a reaction or comment if you like them.
+
+### Have a question?
+Open a new discussion titled **`[Question] topic`** in the Community tab.
+
+Ready? **Share your breakthrough and claim the next TerraMind Innovators Award!**
+
 
-Submit your use case in the [Community](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ibm-esa-geospatial/community/discussions) tap as a new discussion.